Fun Weekends

    Jared and I have had some really fun weekends lately, jumping in to having an awesome summer. 

    A few weekends ago, we went and visited my family in GA for Ben's graduation! Grandma and Sara came from the Hunt side. Grandpa and Marilee came from the Voegele side. We had family pictures taken, which was nice. Ben was totally funny and wouldn't look at us very often when he was graduating, but we still got some funny pictures! 

 Not looking

Not looking again

Not looking and yawning

 Finally got him looking in our general direction as he got up to walk on stage

This was Jared and I outside waiting for Ben to come find us. It was sunny outside...

    Ben also got his Eagle Scout thing. I just got pictures of the program.

    It was pretty much a weekend about Ben. The rest of the time was just fun and hanging out. The big events were the graduation, pictures and Eagle Scout thing. 

    A little bit after that, Jared and I got tickets to a Steve Martin show! He saw them on Groupon and it was such a great deal and we couldn't pass it up! It was an outside concert and was just so great! Steve Martin is hilarious; we still laugh at his jokes! And all the banjo playing was amazing. He is with the band The Steep Canyon Rangers and they just had a CD come out, so they are going on tour to promote it. At the very end during an encore, Steve did the famous King Tut song and it was awesome!!!

     Us with our tickets! What a silly guy behind us. Thought he could get away with picking his nose!

The stage waiting for Steve Martin

He's telling a joke before playing. He has some pretty good ones.

 Can you tell it's him? White suit, black glasses. Totally Steve Martin

    I'm now working on Saturdays so our weekends may not be fulled with stuff like that every week, but we'll still find fun things to do. We like to lay out by the pool and get tan and once a month we go to the LDS temple down here that's just a few minutes away. 

    We're still waiting for the eggs in the nest outside to hatch. We'll let ya'll know when that happens!

I'm back!

    So the past few weeks have been stressful with me working really hard to finish school before the deadline. But good news. I finished! All of my grades are in and finalized and I should be getting my diploma mailed to me in about a month! 

    It'll be nice for the first little bit now of having full days off work and not having to rush somewhere and do Accounting, or go through a giant stack of Humanities flash cards. After a while though, I'm sure I'll be dying for something else to do. 

    So I'll be looking for another job or will be trying to work extra hours at other bank branches. One week I was able to work a full week by picking up shifts at another branch that needed help. If I just let people know I am very available to pick up extra shifts, maybe they'll ask me to help again!

    Other good news, we have a bird and her nest and her eggs in our little flowers outside! It's so fun! We noticed our flowers looking a little off and every now and then we see a bird in the flowers and it'll fly off when we try to get a good look at it. 

    

    Jared went out one morning to water the flowers (thinking they were dying and that's why they didn't look so good) and the bird flew out. He noticed a nest! So we got a better look and there are 4 eggs in the nest!

    We are trying our best not to spook the bird too much so she won't leave the nest. We want the eggs to hatch and have a cute little bird family in our flowers on our patio!

    Now that I have all this extra time, I am back into keeping this blog updated! The next couple blogs might just be racaps of things going on or that have happened. 

    For example, I still need to blog about our trip to GA for my brother Ben's High School graduation. I have pictures and everything!

    Another thing, we are going to start working on food storage. Just pick up something each time I go out shopping. Are any of ya'll working on food storage? What kinds of things do you buy that I can just get piece by piece?

    It's good to be back :)

When Was The Last Time I Was Here?

    I can't even remember the last time I blogged. This is nuts. So here it is, the much needed update on our lives in Nashville. 

    Things are going great! Jared is still liking work and so am I! I finished training and moved to my official Bank of America branch which is only a few minutes away from where Jared works. I only work a few days a week and I am in the drive through, which is totally easy! I just talk in the microphone, do what the people ask and I have a machine next to me that counts all the money for me! There are a few times I still have to count, but not very often! Hooray! :)

    The weather has been so funny. One day it was so hot and the next it was raining. Jared and I spent a little bit of a Sunday outside tanning but we haven't had the chance since. So much for having an AWESOME tan for family pictures. 

    We found an AMAZING BBQ place! It was recommended by a friend of a family in our ward. I was lucky and remembered the name when Jared and I wanted some good BBQ. This place was amazing! Jared had ribs and I had a delicious pulled pork sandwich. We are so excited to go again really soon. 

    This weekend my brother Ben is graduating from high school. So I requested the day off and so did Jared. We will be driving to Augusta, GA Friday morning to get there in time for his Court of Honor and for some needed family time. During that weekend we will have family photos and some fun things that I will most likely blog about when we get back. 

    I am almost done with school! Took my Humanities 202 final and am just waiting for a paper to be graded so I can get my official passing grade. My internship stuff has been mailed in and they will change my grade before the deadline on Friday. Woo! Now I'm just studying for Accounting so I can hopefully take my final Thursday. 

    The flowers Jared bought me a month ago to hang outside look awesome! They just look great with the pink petals. The rain has been doing them good the past few days and there are some spots of sun every now and then. 

    There are also some birds who like the flowers too! I've seen a couple where one bird will be inside the flowers and another bird will perch around the edge. Or a bird will spend a few seconds resting on the flowers before flying off again. It's just so cute and makes me so happy. 

    After weeks of being irritated by the pest control guys and our apartment complex office, I went out and bought my own pest control spray/stuff. And I feel confident that I sprayed every spot the bugs can come from. Might have gone a little overboard, but I had to claim my territory!

    Anyways, there's my little update! And that little running tally I was keeping about movies we watch for the other person. It's still a tie, but it's gone up to: Jared 5      Stephanie 5

    I watched Tremors and he watched I.Q. Well, he mostly slept through I.Q. but that's OK.